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Digital Communications
Engineering & Social Sciences Program
Madrid, Spain
Dates: early Sep 2025 - mid Dec 2025
Digital Communications
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Location: Madrid, Spain
Primary Subject Area: Computer Engineering
Instruction in: English
Course Code: 13842
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 300
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 42
Prerequisites: Linear Systems (Second year, first semester)
Communication Theory (Second year, second semester)
DESCRIPTION
1.- Introduction
1.1.- Introduction to digital communication systems
1.2.- Digital communication model
1.3.- Objectives and organization of the course
2.- Linear modulations
2.1.- Baseband PAM modulations
2.2.- Bandpass PAM modulations
3.- Detection under intersymbol interference
3.1.- Problem statement
3.2.- Memoryless symbol-by-symbol detector
3.3.- Maximum likelihood sequence detector
3.4.- Channel equalizers
4.- Non-linear modulations (phase and frequency modulations)
3.1.- QPSK and OQPSK modulations
3.2.- Differential phase modulations (DPSK)
3.3.- Frequency modulations (CPFSK and MSK)
3.4.- Continuous phase modulations (CPM)
4.- Multipulse modulations
4.1.- Spread spectrum modulations (DS-SS, FH-SS)
4.2.- Frequency division multiplex modulations (FDM, OFDM)
5.- Channel coding for error protection
5.1.- Introduction to channel coding and some definitions a la codificación y definiciones
5.2.- Linear block codes
5.3.- Convolutional codes
1.1.- Introduction to digital communication systems
1.2.- Digital communication model
1.3.- Objectives and organization of the course
2.- Linear modulations
2.1.- Baseband PAM modulations
2.2.- Bandpass PAM modulations
3.- Detection under intersymbol interference
3.1.- Problem statement
3.2.- Memoryless symbol-by-symbol detector
3.3.- Maximum likelihood sequence detector
3.4.- Channel equalizers
4.- Non-linear modulations (phase and frequency modulations)
3.1.- QPSK and OQPSK modulations
3.2.- Differential phase modulations (DPSK)
3.3.- Frequency modulations (CPFSK and MSK)
3.4.- Continuous phase modulations (CPM)
4.- Multipulse modulations
4.1.- Spread spectrum modulations (DS-SS, FH-SS)
4.2.- Frequency division multiplex modulations (FDM, OFDM)
5.- Channel coding for error protection
5.1.- Introduction to channel coding and some definitions a la codificación y definiciones
5.2.- Linear block codes
5.3.- Convolutional codes